“For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also” (Lk. 12:32-34).
There is a scene in the play, “The Clowns of God,” in which God speaks to a group of anxious but well-intentioned people about a mentally handicapped little girl in their midst:
I know what you are thinking. You need a sign. What better one could I give you than to make this little one whole and new? I could do it; but I will not. I gave this mite a gift I denied to all of you — eternal innocence. To you she looks imperfect, but to me she is flawless, like the bud that dies unopened or the fledgling that falls from the nest…She will never destroy…She will remind you every day that I am who I am, that My ways are not yours, and that the smallest dust-mite whirled in darkest space does not fall out of My hand. I have chosen you. You have not chosen Me. This…
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